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Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge
ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables
Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...
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£26,50
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Knowing Nature Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840
ISBN: HB: 9780300111040, Yale University Press, January 2012
424 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 325 colour illus.
Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, whose work has been address...
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£65,00
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Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300149647, Yale University Press, June 2009
72 pp., 21.6x27.9 cm, 32 duotone illus., 16 black&white illus.
The Yale Center for British Art stands as the final architectural masterpiece of the great twentieth-century American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974). It received the 2005 American Institute of Architects Twenty-Five Year Award honoring "signific...
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£25,00
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